Kate Sullivan

article placeholder

Help!

Kate Sullivan
? BEATLE PEOPLE UNITE! KLSX-FM is canceling Breakfast With the Beatles, one of L.A.’s longest running, most cherished radio shows, and replacing it with an infomercial. (See page 18 for a full report.) Shit in a handbag, man. I like a good infomercial as much as the next gal (shoutout......
article placeholder

Free as a Bass

Kate Sullivan
? IT IS NO SHOCKER to learn that ’N Sync-er Lance Bass is gay. It is a revelation on par with the recent scientific discovery, announced in June, that coffee helps to protect your liver from alcohol damage. It’s something you kinda knew intuitively all along. (Obviously, coffee is an......
article placeholder

We’re Goin’ Down in Flames

Kate Sullivan
? For kicks, I thought you might enjoy reading a couple old press-release headlines I found while cleaning out my e-mail. To wit: Monday, April 17, 2006, 9:49 a.m. FORMER DRUG DEALER REACHES #1 ON BILLBOARD CHRISTIAN ALBUMS CHART Those Christians. They’re always bragging about how cool they used to......
article placeholder

Cirque Du Vegas Does Beatles

Kate Sullivan
As you’ve probably heard by now, Cirque du Soleil has a new Beatles-inspired show in Vegas, at the Mirage, in the very theater where Roy got mauled by the white tiger. This new show presents a highly digitized mashup of Beatles music — cut & pasted by Beatles producer George......

Rock & Roll & Movies & Mom

Kate Sullivan
Filmmaker Allison Anders says her movie-and-music festival, Don’t Knock the Rock, is “totally music-nerdy!” She says this between bites of oatmeal at an Eastside coffeeshop. Her daughter Tiffany, sitting next to her, is eating a bowl of granola. This mom-daughter superduo started the festival in 2003 — Allison books the......

The Whole Kitty and Kaboodle

Kate Sullivan
As a child of the ’70s, I consider myself first-generation Hello Kitty. As such, I have a lifetime membership in the secret society of the O.G.H.K. (Original Gangsta Hello Kitty). Membership is one of the many compensations for coming of age after the Archies but before the Spice Girls. I......
article placeholder

Feel the Ark-ness

Kate Sullivan
YOU SAY YOU WANT SOME glitter-rock lyrics? Well, that’s good, because I just happen to have some. You see, I’ve been listening all morning to The State of the Ark (Virgin), the new record by Swedish rock & rollers the Ark, who’re playing L.A. next week. Take this, for example:......
article placeholder

Odds/Sods, Bits/Bobs

Kate Sullivan
? DID ANYONE ELSE THINK it was weird that Rob Zombie performed at the KROQ Weenie Roast when he’s a DJ at their underdog competitor, Indie-103? I thought it was weird. Then again, KROQ is weird. Indie’s weird. So is Rob Zombie, in a way: He managed to embody and......
article placeholder

Blah, Blah, Blah

Kate Sullivan
Easy Like Thursday Morning If you forgot to get tickets for the Raconteurs show Wednesday night, or spent that cash on fine chocolate and a cheap-ass pedicure, relax! You probably made the right choice! The men-children of the indie-garage-pop supergroup are doing an incredibly cute morning-after set at Amoeba Records......

Idol From on High

Kate Sullivan
I knew Taylor Hicks was going to win American Idol the night before it happened. I was up on the third balcony of the Kodak Theater to see the performances America would vote on, in the very last row of a section so remote you had to squeeze through a......